Sentences with phrase «which is less than optimal»

I don't care what the cost is, it will save you: money (I have to republish the book), Time (I have to do what I can to get people to trust this republished book will not be another mistake), and embarrassment (I have put out to the public a book which is less than optimal, I'm embarrassed!)

I incubated it overnight and didn't wake up to check the temperature or turn the oven on, but when I woke up in the morning the temperature was reading 100 °F which is less than optimal incubating temperature (115 °F would have been better).

Not exact matches

This is good for first - time home buyers because FHA loans allow for a low down payment of just 3.5 %, which can help a household with good income but less - than - optimal savings move from renting into homeownership.

Its purpose is not to list and describe all of the forms of human psyc functioning which are judged by the profession or some members of the profession as less than optimal.

Open adoption — which occurs when people come together under less - than - optimal circumstances — is a mix of the sublime and the sorrowful.

(For exhibit A, see the process of healthcare reform in the US, which we can safely say has been considerably less than Pareto optimal).

Mr. Recchia has raised considerably more money and has the support of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — but Mr. Recchia has been set back considerably by a slew of embarrassing gaffes recently highlighted nationwide on the Daily Show and less - than - optimal debate performances upon which his opponent has seized.

They relate their hypothesis to life - history theory, which talks of balancing the preservation of one's health and the production of offspring that will survive to reproduce themselves, and theorize that «early life stressors may predispose an individual to adaptively suppress fertility when situations are less than optimal, leading to periods of fertility difficulties even following previous births.»

Ultimately, operating from a survival state means your life is driven by unconscious impulses that serve only to get you away from an immediate threat, not to set you up for success down the road, which can lead to less than optimal decisions in a moment of panic.

Less than optimal digestion can happen for other reasons too: not enough gut flora to aid the digestive process, not enough water and / or fibre to help our body move all that digested food out of us, or too much protein which is super hard for our system to breakdown.

But onsite support is crucial for teachers learning the complexities of facilitating classroom activity with technology, particularly in schools in which technology support may be less than optimal.

With a car that has electronic fuel injection, it makes sense to me that burning oil is going to mess up oxygen sensor readings which is going to lead to less - than - optimal fuel regulation.

This is good for first - time home buyers because FHA loans allow for a low down payment of just 3.5 %, which can help a household with good income but less - than - optimal savings move from renting into homeownership.

Optimal portfolios that comprise the efficient frontier tend to have a higher degree of diversification than the sub-optimal ones, which are typically less diversified.

Most allergic dogs are born with a less than optimal skin barrier which allows for antigens to enter the skin more easily.

The «best estimate», which is the current focus of much scientific research, is less meaningful for robust decision making strategies than it is for optimal decision making.

Yet either way, the «optimal» rate is still less than the textbook Pigovian rate, which would normally set the carbon tax equal to the «social cost of carbon» which we assumed was $ 20 / ton in our example.

Felix Matthes, responsible for energy at the think tank Öko - Institut, says the law is guided by abstract principles rather than experience, which might «set us up for a less than optimal development in the future.»

If the information is significantly different than that which was reported, the agent may have inadvertently placed your coverage on a less than optimal pricing track.

Its weaknesses are generally in the areas in which the Note8's camera shines, with a slower autofocus and less than optimal results in low - lighting conditions.

This is provided you haven't spent an entire lifetime working for the same firm, which may be suggestive of a less - than - optimal appetite for risk.

It is a 12 - item tool with dichotomous scoring method (0 -0-1-1), which determines the point prevalence of psychological distress or «caseness», with the most widely used threshold being ≥ 4.37 The scores, relating to symptoms over the previous «few weeks», range from 0 to 12, with 0 indicating no evidence of probable mental ill health, 1 — 3 indicating less than optimal mental health and 4 or more indicating probable mental ill health.

Of course, this body of research does not really explain why certain behaviours are problematic or stressors for parents and families.2 Moreover, parent distress may be the antecedent rather than the outcome of child behaviour problems: High parent distress is associated with less optimal parenting and more negative parent - child interaction which, in turn, predicts child behaviour problems.

This helps both the couple and myself to understand relationship models that were developed early in life, which are brought in to every relationship in a non-conscious way to help the couple see how their relationship models interact in less than optimal ways.